NO YOU CAN’T
ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN
WEST HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY OPENING OCTOBER 1, 2011 5898 BLACKWELDER STREET CULVER CITY CA 90232
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Nope. Not allowed boys and girls. You won’t know why or how the White House came to look the way it does, why the Capitol Building has a dome or the difference between the Pantheon and the Parthenon— or anything, really, from before when your grandparents were born except maybe at Disneyland or in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Because ornament’s a crime. It’s history. Nothing good there. You’re on your own. You will never be able to draw it or make it and you’ll grow up thinking you’re above it. And anyway it’s not a language that you will ever understand. Those curly cues, those funny shapes and patterns—“entasis”, “egg-anddart”, “triglyph”, “metope”— it will all be Greek to you. WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME OVERLEAF: Childrens Theater ABOVE: Childrens Theater Detail (Built by W.E. O’Neil Construction and SMI Architectural Millwork) PAPER USED FOR THIS POSTCARD IS CERTIFIED BY THE SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE (SFI). SHOULD YOU PREFER TO FOREGO RECEIPT OF THESE NOTICES EITHER VIA E-MAIL OR STANDARD MAIL PLEASE LET US KNOW.